Traditional Proverbs Love Sayings

Health is better than wealth.

From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.

One of these days, is none of these days.

First deserve then desire.

Measure three times before you cut once.

Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark.

He has hard work who has nothing to do.

Just when you think you've finally hit bottom, someone tosses you a shovel.

He who won't be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock.

People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Nothing is more noble than politeness, and nothing more ridiculous than ceremony.

A cat may look at a king.

Traditional Sayings in English

A mother's heart is always with her children.

Love will find a way.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Strike while the iron is hot.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.

Some evils are cured by contempt.

Laughter is the best medicine.

A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.

Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration.

Long absent, soon forgotten.

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Nature surpasses nurture.

The eye is the mirror of the soul.

People who have bread to eat do not appreciate the severity of a famine.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

A drop of honey catches more flies than a hogshead of vinegar.

You can't get blood out of a stone.

Tomorrow is another day.

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

The tallest tree is rooted in the ground.

The hardest work of all is to do nothing.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.

They that envy others are their inferiors.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Sickness comes on horseback, but goes away on foot.

The devil looks after his own.

Sickness is felt, but health not at all.

Never judge from appearances.

When one is prepared, difficulties do not come.

Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure.

Caution is the parent of safety.

It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good.

Look before you leap.

Slow help is no help.

Every one is innocent until he is proved guilty.

Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.

We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet.

How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward.

Better to be known as a sinner than a hypocrite.

Traditional Proverbs about Love

Love rules his kingdom without a sword.

Love makes the world go round.

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Love laughs at locksmiths.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Love me, love my dog.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Swedish Sayings

True love never grows old.

No love like the first love.

He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.

Lucky at cards, unlucky in love.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves.

Salt water and absence wash away love.

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

Absence and a friendly neighbor washes away love.

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window.

All the world loves a lover.

All is fair in love and war.

Traditional Proverbs about Life

Life is sweet.

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

Bread is the staff of life.

A sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to our steps as we walk the tightrope of life.

The best things in life are free.

Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.

While there's life there's hope.

Lose a leg rather than life.

Ever since dying came into fashion, life hasn't been safe.

We come and cry and that is life, we cry and go and that is death.

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Quackery has no friend like gullibility.

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

A hedge between keeps friendship green.

Hedges between keep friendships green.

A Friend in need is a friend indeed.

The north wind has no corn and a poor man no friend.

Short judgments make long friends.

Books and friends should be few but good.

A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Talk well of your friends and of your enemies say nothing.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

The best of friends must part.

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Fools live poor to die rich.

Better be a fool than a knave.

A fool believes everything.

He that is his own lawyer has a fool for a client.

They are fools whose sheep run away twice.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Penny wise, pound foolish.

A fool at forty is a fool indeed.

There's no fool like an old fool.

Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.

The fool is always beginning to live.

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Death is the great leveller.

Death defies the doctor.

Death is the poor man's best physician.

Fear of death is worse than death itself.

After death the doctor.

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.

Grey hairs are death's blossoms.

Nothing is certain but death and taxes.

The first breath is the beginning of death.

The old man has his death before his eyes; the young man behind his back.

God helps them that help themselves.

God sends us meat, the devil sends us cooks.

God defend me from my friends; from my enemies I can defend myself.

Whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

The charitable give out the door and God puts it back through the window.

Man does what he can, God does what he will.

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

No pillows so soft as God's Promise.

Danger past, God forgotten.

The gods sell all things at a fair price.

Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.

If you want to know what a man is really like, notice how he acts when he loses money.

No bees, no honey; no work, no money. *

Physicians' faults are covered with earth, and rich men's with money.

Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

How to dress? When the money is going from you wear anything you like. When the money is coming to you, dress your best.

Truth is God's daughter.

Truth fears no trial.

Truth will out.

Truth is the daughter of time.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Truth is the safest lie.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Simplicity is the seal of truth.

Better a lie that heals than a truth that wounds.

Speak the truth and shame the devil.

Tell the truth and then run.

Ridicule is the test of truth.

Time cures the sick man, not the ointment.

Time is a great healer.

Time tries truth.

Time will tell.

No time like the present.

It is never too late to ask what time it is.

A stitch in time saves nine.

Quicker by taking more time.

The person who is tired will find time to sleep.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.

There is a time and place for everything.

The man who builds his own throne rules over a desert.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

The poor man seeks only a crumb, then finds he still hungers.

Every man after his fashion.

The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does.

A man can die but once.

The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.

Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost.

The man who can't dance says the band can't play.

Never tell your story to a deaf man.

The style is the man.

Throw dirt enough, and some will stick.

As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.

Every man is his own worst enemy.

No man is a good physician who has never been sick.

A man need not look in your mouth to know how old you are.

First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man.

Benefits make a man a slave.

A man of straw is worth a woman of gold.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.

No man is infallible.

A good wife and health is a mans best wealth.

Find a cruel man and you see a coward.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

A good wife and health are a man's best wealth.

One man's meat is another man's poison.

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too bus to take care of his tools.

Every man to his trade.

People lend only to the rich.

Never burn your fingers to snuff another man's candle.

As soon as man is born he begins to die.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Better be an old man's darling than a young man's slave.

Do not look to the peaceful man for cudgels.

Medicine cures the man who is fated not to die.

Fine feathers make fine birds.

Let them be birds.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

The early bird catches the early worm.

A fine cage won't feed the bird.

Birds of a feather flock together.

Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Possession is nine points of the law.

The more laws the less justice.

A lawyer never goes to law himself.

There's one law for the rich, and another for the poor.

Possession is nine tenths of the law.

The law does not concern itself about trifles.

A lawyer's opinion is worth nothing unless paid for.

The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.

Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

A priest sees people at their best, a lawyer at their worst, but a doctor sees them as they really are.

Better a lean agreement than a fat lawsuit.

Dog does not eat dog.

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Every dog has his day.

A good dog deserves a good bone.

Better a living dog than a dead lion.

Take a hair of the dog that bit you.

Every dog is allowed one bite.

The loudest bark rids not a dog of his fleas.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Give a dog a bad name and hang him.

The dog that quits barking can get some sleep.

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

The most noble dog can only bark.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Conscience is the dog that can't bite, but never stops barking.

Two dogs strive for a bone and the third one runs off with it.

Traditional Sayings